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Roy Buchanan - Self-titled Album 1972

Roy Buchanan (September 23, 1939 – August 14, 1988) was an American guitarist and blues musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan worked as both a sideman and solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career and two later solo albums that made it on to the Billboard chart. Despite never having achieved stardom, he is still considered a highly influential guitar player. Guitar Player praised him as having one of the "50 Greatest Tones of all Time."

Buchanan achieved his sound through minimum means. He played the Telecaster through a Fender Vibrolux amplifier with the volume and tone "full out," and used the guitar's volume and tone controls to control volume and sound (he achieved a wah wah effect using the tone control). To achieve his desired distorted sounds, Buchanan at one point used a razor blade to slit the paper cones of the speakers in his amp, an approach also employed by the Kinks' Dave Davies. Buchanan rarely used effects pedals, though he started using an Echoplex on A Street Called Straight (1976). In his later career he played with a Boss DD-2 delay.

In March 1968 a photographer friend, John Gossage gave Buchanan tickets to a concert by the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Washington Hilton. "Buchanan was dismayed to find his own trademark sounds, like the wah-wah that he'd painstakingly produced with his hands and his Telecaster, created by electronic pedals. He could never attempt Hendrix's stage show, and this realization refocused him on his own quintessentially American roots-style guitar picking."

A victim of suspected murder while in police custody, his death was officially recorded as suicide.

This was Roy's 1st released album on the Polydor label. He had previously recorded another album for them, titled 'The Prophet' which was eventually released in 2004.

His first ever album was Buch and the Snakestretchers, released in 1971, on the BIOYA label (homemade and self-produced).

Re: Roy Buchanan - Self-titled Album 1972

Forgot the youtube link!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJqHrAvfckg&list=PLH-Z9W9MZCGFRb4_-WpLy_WRE1sjFVO09